President Kathleen Waldron

"At William Paterson University, we are committed to providing an education that is outstanding and affordable. We continue to be proud of our many accomplishments with regard to academic excellence and student success."

What Is the CTE?

The Center for Teaching Excellence offers both individual instructional support for faculty and a range of programming on teaching and learning. These services are designed for faculty, at all levels of experience, who wish to practice effective teaching and advance student learning. Support for individual faculty includes mentoring, instructional development and refinement, individually-selected instructional resources, teaching enhancement activities, classroom assessment, teaching portfolio development, video (or audio) recorded classroom observations, peer teaching observations, and assessment of student learning. In conjunction with the IRT program, the Center can also work to assist faculty with technology and teaching.

In addition to individual faculty support, CTE also offers regular event programming. This includes monthly seminars, workshops on various teaching topics, and interdisciplinary forums. Monthly pedagogical seminars are usually offered on the last Thursday of every month, while workshops and forums are often offered in conjunction with other events on campus. All seminar and workshop activities are faculty run and faculty sponsored. Seminars on specific topics can be requested by departments chairs or by individual faculty members.

One of the primary mandates of the CTE is to assist recently hired faculty with their transition to William Paterson University. We co-sponsor the New Faculty Orientation in late August and meet with new faculty during the course of the academic year.

The CTE is a faculty-led program; our work with individual faculty is initiated by faculty who request our services, and no record of these services is ever shared with anyone else.